Flora of North America species comparison

erect or ascending;

strigose.

decumbent and ascending, woolly-tomentulose.

most reduced to phyllodia, continuous with rachis, 2–10 cm;

stipules distinct throughout, 2–13 mm, papery at proximal nodes, herbaceous at distal nodes;

leaflets 0–(1–13), blades linear, elliptic, or oblong, 1–15 mm, apex acute to obtuse or emarginate, surfaces strigose;

terminal leaflet decurrent distally, not jointed to rachis.

(2.5–)4–12 cm;

stipules connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, mostly connate at distal nodes, 2–5.5 mm, submembranous;

leaflet blades oblong-oblanceolate, oblong-obovate, or oblong-ovate, (3–)6–12(–22) mm, apex retuse or obtuse, surfaces white-pannose.

6–30-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 3–30 cm in fruit;

bracts 1.3–3 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

10–30-flowered;

axis (1–)2–9 cm in fruit;

bracts 2–3.5 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

erect or incurved-ascending, 6–23 cm.

ascending, (3–)5–13 cm.

1.5–3.5 mm.

0.8–3 mm.

10–15.5 mm;

calyx suffused with purple or very pale, shortly cylindric, 4.1–8(–8.5) mm, white-strigose, tube 3.4–5.2(–6) × 1.9–2.9(–3.4) mm, lobes triangular to subulate, 0.6–2.2 mm;

corolla pale pink or whitish to pink-purple;

banner recurved through 40–45°;

keel 9–12.3 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, not beaklike.

12.5–16 mm;

calyx 6.6–7.9 mm, white-tomentulose, tube 4.1–4.8 mm, lobes broadly subulate, 2.3–3.5 mm;

corolla whitish or ochroleucous, concolorous, drying yellowish;

keel (9–)9.3–12 mm.

pendulous, stramineous or suffused with purple or mottled, slightly curved or straight, oblong to lanceoloid-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 14–32 × 4–8 mm, stiffly papery, glabrous or strigose;

stipe 0–0.6 mm.

pale green or purplish becoming stramineous, 16–26 × (9–)13–23 mm, papery, somewhat translucent, finely tomentulose.

16–26.

= 22.